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The increase in U.S. life expectancy in recent decades was not associated with more end-of-life ill health, though Black and less educated women experience more end-of-life disability than others

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PLOS

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267551

Article Title: How does it all end? Trends and disparities in health at the end of life

Author Countries: Germany

Funding: The author received no specific funding for this work.


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